The author and Marine veteran discusses the future of technology, the promise of AI, the perils of toxic politics, and other themes packed into his latest work of speculative fiction. 

Guest: Elliot Ackerman, co-author of "2054: A Novel," which was published on March 12.

Find our previous discussions with Ackerman here:

• Ep. 107: The legacy of America’s Afghan war;
• And Ep. 79: “2034: A Novel of the Next World War”.